The Royal Marines Museum in Southsea, Hampshire is to reveal the soldier's eye view of the war in Afghanistan with a series of lectures by serving Royal Marines who have completed tours of duty in the troubled country.

The BBC's Battlefield Britain series looked at battles fought on British soil. Culture24 developed a set of accompanying trails exploring museum collections that help us find out more about these conflicts.

Heralding the beginning of the Norman Conquest, the Battle of Hastings was one of the bloodiest and most important battles ever fought on British soil. Follow the locations and collections with this battlefield trail.

Ten years after it was discovered alongside hundreds of Roman coins and the feast of a pig at the Leicestershire home of one of the most important Iron Age archaeological sites in Britain, a one-of-a-kind silver helmet is about to go on permanent public display.

How did Richard III die? As the University of Leicester confirms the discovery of his body, one of the experts involved in the project explains more about the king's violent death at the Battle of Bosworth.